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- At The Movies II by Eric W. Schwartz
-
- As they say, 'Those high-concept pieces'll kill ya every time.' At
- the Movies 2 is one of those pieces. Obviously a sequel to the original At
- the Movies, a sexist but popular cartoon starring Amy the Squirrel.(God
- knows WHY it's as popular as it is. I know most women aren't too crazy
- about it, including Amy.) So here comes At The Movies 2, nearly one full
- year in the making (working on and off) animated on paper, digitised with
- Digi-View, retraced in Dpaint 3, additional drawing in the Disney
- Animation Studio, Colored in Dpaint 3 and later Dpaint 4, Edited and timed
- in PP&S' Animation Station, and presentation in The Director 2. This
- animation runs approximately 1 minute 45 seconds when running in the fully
- loaded version. This is ESSSA (Eric Schwartz's second shareware animation)
- . If you feel it's worth it, send me five bucks to help me pay for
- college. (If not, don't.)
-
- MINIMUM CONFIGURATION:
- Any Amiga with one megabyte of memory and two floppy drives
- (You might be able to get away with one drive.)
-
- RECOMMENDED CONFIGURATION:
- Any Amiga with 3.5 megs of memory, an accelerator, and a hard
- drive (this allows the anim to play at full speed, and load
- completely into memory quickly. My best Amiga is only three
- megs , an HD, and no accelerator. Awwww . )
-
- The Animation comes on four floppies and there are five configurations for
- playing it, One meg, Two meg, Three meg and accelerator versions of two
- and three. The different version all play the same animation, but the
- lower memory versions load the animation in sections, pausing during play.
- (unlike the others, the one meg version has no sound.)
-
- NOTES:
- As the animation loads from disk, the screen on which the Anim is
- displayed must remain in front, but when the system requests a new disk,
- the workbench screen is popped to front and stays there. you can either
- avoid this by insterting the next disk (sequentially 1-4) before it is
- needed, or hitting left AMIGA-M to return the player screen to front after
- the requester has appeared. Otherwise the animation will play behind the
- workbench wher you can't see it.
-
- To install on a hard drive, I reccomend creating a directory for
- it, and transfering the contents of the four disks, excluding the s, c,
- devs, and libs directories. the soundFX directories on each of the four
- disks should make into one SoundFX directory inside the destination drawer
- . A file/directory utility, like DiskMaster or SID REALLY helps here. Once
- that's done, you must create an ASSIGN statement to get the player to look
- at the Hard Drive and not the floppies. You can do this by editing the
- ICONX script that runs the anim in any ASCII text editor. the scripts are
- the files connected to the workbench icons. Load up the script that
- matches your system and add:
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- Assign Amy1: Work:Animations/At_The_Movies (You would ASSIGN to
- Assign Amy2: Work:Animations/At_The_Movies the full pathname of
- Assign Amy3: Work:Animations/At_The_Movies your Hard Drive and
- Assign Amy4: Work:Animations/At_The_Movies Directory.)
-
- NOTE 2:
- The 3-meg version will fill the entire 3 megs very tightly. I
- reccomend shutting down all tasks and closing windows before trying it,
- especially if you have a hard drive and two floppy drives eating up
- memory, hence the 3.5 meg recommendation. You can boot from the Amy1: disk
- which will give you a choice to run the one-meg or three meg versions.
- this will save memory, but all you can do then is run the animation from
- the floppies. if you want to run a different version on booting from Amy1:,
- like the two-meg or the accelerated versions, you will have to modify the
- startup sequence in a text editor. If all else fails running the 3-meg anim,
- run the two-meg one.
-
- NOTE 3:
- The anim uses the Times.font for its titles. if you have it in
- your system fonts: directory, I recommend you remove the
- Assign fonts: Amy1:fonts statement from the correct icon script with a
- text editor. this assignment has been known to cause problems.
-
- FINAL NOTE:
- This animation can be distributed freely as long as all files are
- included in their original form. At the Movies 2 and its characters
- (especially Amy the Squirrel,) are Copyright 1990, 1991 Eric W. Schwartz.
-
- As Always,
-
- Eric Schwartz
-
- E.S. Productions
- P.O. Box 292684
- Kettering, OH 45429-0684
- USA
-
- P.S. - I want to apologise to all those folks out there in the
- international Amiga community who have written letters to me and not
- recieved a response. I am a notoriously bad procrastinator, especially
- when it comes to letter writing.